Multimodal In Vivo Imaging of Tumorigenesis and Response to Chemotherapy in a Transgenic Mouse Model of Mammary Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Transgenic mice expressing the polyoma middle T oncoprotein (PyMT) in the mammary epithelium were explored by multimodal imaging to monitor longitudinally spontaneous tumor growth and response to chemotherapy.

Procedures

Positron emission tomography (PET) with 2-deoxy-2-[(18)F]fluoro-D-glucose ([(18)F]FDG) and 3'-deoxy-3'-[(18)F]fluorothymidine ([(18)F]FLT), single photon emission tomography (SPECT) with [(99m)Tc]TcO4 ([(99m)Tc]TEC), X-ray computed tomography, and fluorescent confocal endomicroscopy (FCE) images were acquired during tumor progression in female PyMT mice. Imaging with [(18)F]FDG and [(99m)Tc]TEC was also performed in untreated, doxorubicin-treated, and docetaxel-treated PyMT mice. Total tumor volumes were quantified. Tumors were collected and macrosco

SUBMITTER: Alberini JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4927598 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature